[AISWorld] IFIP 2018 Call for papers

Mon Jan 29 04:56:09 EST 2018

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the conference chairs and organizers, it gives a great
pleasure to invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming IFIP 2018 (
https://ifip.gust.edu.kw/, https://easychair.org/cfp/I3E2018), to be held
at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. The call of
papers is included herein.

Kind regards

Yogesh

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Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD
Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation
Director of Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC)
School of Management
Room #323
Swansea University, Bay Campus
Fabian Bay, Swansea, SA1 8EN, Wales, UK.
TEL (Office): +44 (0) 1792 602340
Email: y.k.dwivedi at swansea.ac.uk ; ykdwivedi at gmail.com
Home page:http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/
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Associate Editor for Digital Marketing Section - European Journal of
Marketing
Senior Editor (Europe/Africa/Middle East) - Journal of Electronic Commerce
Research

*The 17th IFIP Conference and Doctoral Colloquium on e-Business, e-Services
and e-Society (I3E 2018)*

*“Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era”*

Conference: 29th October - 1st November 2018

Doctoral Colloquium: 27th – 28th October 2018

Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), Kuwait

*Paper submission deadline:     July 20th 2018*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Digitalization is shaping the industrial economy and it is the driving
force of the fourth industrial revolution. Traditional business functions
are being restructured and entire business model are being transformed.
Increasingly practitioners and scholars are forced to rethink everything
they do. Value delivery with its embedded intelligence in offerings
requires competencies and integration of several disciplines in complex
systems. Challenges and opportunities span technological, economic, legal,
political, socio-cultural and competitive realms as well as business and
management models like in no other previous eras. The speed, breadth and
depth of information and knowledge transfer is unprecedented. Managing in
the digital era is a challenge in itself. Managing change in the digital
era, however, is the greatest of all challenges and, at the same time, the
greatest of all opportunities. Our responsibility, in this Digital Era, is
to ensure that our contribution to knowledge has a decisively positive
impact on all stakeholders and the current and future welfare of the entire
society.

The 17th IFIP Conference and Doctoral Colloquium (27th–28th October) aims
to bring together contributions from a variety of perspectives, disciplines
and communities for the advancement of knowledge regarding ‘challenges and
opportunities in the digital era’. To this end, we invite scholars,
practitioners and research students to submit and present their papers and
findings to the 17th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and
e-Society to be held in October / November 2018 at GUST, Kuwait.

*Submission Guidelines*
Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers
must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or
journal outlet. Further information will soon be made available on the
conference website: https://ifip.gust.edu.kw/

*Topics of Submission*
Papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are
welcomed. Areas of interest include, amongst others, the following:

*Social Media*
• Social commerce
• Social media and policy consultation
• Social media and public governance
• Social media best practices
• Social media business models
• Social media data mining, analytics and intelligence
• Social media for B2B marketing
• Social media research and theory development
• Social media strategy and integration
• Social media to support education
• Social media, product innovation, and product life-style
• Social media, transparency, openness, and anti-corruption
• ‘Social’ nature of social media.
• Business value of social media and how it can be exploited
• Search and social media analytics
• Challenges and opportunities of social media
• Collaboration and knowledge management using social media
• Legal issues emerging from social media adoption and use
• Managing presence and reputation on social media
• Social media and its application
• Innovation through social media
• Critical perspectives on social media
• Crowdsourcing using social media
• Customer engagement and social media
• Definition and taxonomy of different types of social media
• Disaster prevention using social media
• Effects of social media on consumer choice
• Adoption and diffusion of social media
• Appropriation and re-appropriation of social media
• Content and visual marketing using social media
• Critical perspectives on social media
• Crowdsourcing using social media
• Customer engagement and social media
• Definition and taxonomy of different types of social media
• Disaster prevention using social media
• Effects of social media on consumer choice
• Impact of social media on marketing strategy
• Negative impacts of social media use
• Personnel recruitment/management and social media
• Policy challenges for social media
• Political and social protests using social media
• Privacy issues with social media
• Rigor in social media research
• Risks of social media
• The future of social media
• Sustainability of social media
• Blogging and microblogging
• Corporate social networks
• Internet of things

* Information Systems*
• ICTs for enabling smart cities
• Smart infrastructure management
• National digital and Internet policy
• Cyber security
• Emerging digital service models
• Web 3.0 management
• Smart mobile apps
• Big data analytics
• Public policy for digital transformation
• Inter-organization information systems
• Human computer interaction
• Smart ICT adoption studies
• Smart transportation and mobility
• Smart urbanization and living
• Cyberbullying and trolling
• Information dissemination
• Semantics
• Sentiment analysis.
• Analysis of user generated content
• Analysis of user generated content
• Open data initiatives
• Digital inclusion
• Internet of things
• Business Intelligence

*Marketing and Communications*
• E-Markets and marketplaces
• E-marketing strategies
• E-commerce and mobile commerce
• E-negotiation, trading platforms
• E-procurement, e-fulfilment
• E-Payments and m-Payments
• Marketing campaigns on social media
• Pricing in digital markets

*Management and Operations*
• Critical infrastructure management
• Managing the knowledge society
• Smart supply chain management
• e-Healthcare management
• Information risk management
• Crisis management enabled by social media
• Case studies of best practices in smart supply-chain
• Nation building project management
• Technology management
• Managing search engines
• Measure impact/effect of digitization
• Open innovation
• Good governance, transparency, and accountability
• Collaborations for transformation

*Public Administration*
• Public policy for smart cities
• Natural resource preservation in the Digital Era

*Economics, Sociology and Psychology*
• Smart economy and entrepreneurship
• Social transformation using ICTs
• Socio-economic inclusion in the Digital Era
• Economics of web enablement
• Economic and social effects of social media
• Ethical issues relating to social media
• Socio-economic transformation in the Digital Era

*e-Finance, e-Banking, and e-Accounting*
• E-banking
• E-risk management
• E-investment
• Accounting Information System
• Good governance, transparency, and accountability

*Computer Science and Computer Engineering*
• Software engineering
• Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Computer architecture and engineering
• Database management systems
• Human-computer interaction
• Cloud computing
• Mobile applications
• Knowledge management
• Software engineering and quality
• Artificial intelligence
• Neural networks
• Fuzzy logic
• Expert systems
• Agents and multi-agent systems
• Natural language processing
• Data mining
• Privacy
• Internet security
• Secure transactions
• Cryptography
• Cyber security

*Teaching and Learning*
• e-Learning tools
• Mobile learning
• e-Learning organizational issues
• Gamification
• Collaborative learning
• Curriculum content design
• Educational systems design
• Virtual learning environments
• Web-based learning
• Delivery systems and environments

*Conference Committee*

*Conference Chairs*

   -  Dr. Salah Al-Sharhan, GUST, Kuwait
   -  Professor Antonis Simintiras, GUST, Kuwait

* Conference Co-Chairs*

   - Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK
   - Professor MP Gupta,  IIT Delhi, India
   - Professor Fawaz AL-Anzi Kuwait University, Kuwait
   - Dr Naser Abu Ghazaleh, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Khaled Elmawazini, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Omar Moufakkir, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Jean Paul Arnaout, GUST, Kuwait

*Program Co-Chairs and Co-Editors of Conference Proceedings*

   - Dr. Salah Al-Sharhan, GUST, Kuwait
   - Professor Antonis Simintiras, GUST, Kuwait
   - Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK
   - Dr. Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland
   - Professor Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The
   Netherlands
   - Dr. Luay Tahat, GUST, Kuwait
   - Professor Issam Moughrabi, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Taher Mohammad Ali, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Nripendra P. Rana, , Swansea University, UK

*Organization Co-Chairs*

   - Dr. Ahmed ElMelegy, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Yaseen Tahat, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Khiyar Abdallah, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Khaled Kisswani, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Nada Almasri, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Dhoha Al-Saleh, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Ahmed Elmorshidy, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Mohamad AlNajem, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Mohammed Ouakouak, GUST, Kuwait
   - Dr. Gertrude Hewapathirana, GUST, Kuwait

*Dates and Venue **The 17th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and
e-Society (I3E 2018): *“Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era” - Gulf
University for Science and Technology (GUST), Kuwait

*Date of Conference:*                                                30th
October – 1st November, 2018

*Paper Submission Deadline:*                              Sunday 31st May,
2018

*Submission Website:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2018

*Communication of Blind Review Results:*  Thursday 28th June 2018

*Submission of Revised Final Paper:*              Friday 20th July 2018

*Early Registration:*                                                Monday
13th August 201

*The 17th IFIP Doctoral Colloquium on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society
(I3E 2018): *“Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era” -  Gulf
University for Science and Technology (GUST) Kuwait

*Date of Doctoral Colloquium**:*                          28th – 29th
October, 2018

*Paper Submission Deadline:*                            Sunday 31st May,
2018

*Submission Website:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2018

*Communication of Blind Review Results:*  Thursday 28th June 2018

*Submission of Revised Final Paper:*              Friday 20th July 2018

*Early Registration:*                                                Monday
13th August 2018

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to
moughrabi.i at gust.edu.kw

Recap

Conference website:                     https://ifip.gust.edu.kw/
Paper submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2018
Paper submission deadline:     July 20th 2018